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Examples
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Come now, Lady Wycombe, if youll take the Duke of Zeniths arm, we will proambulate in to the magnolious feed!
Chapter 28 1922
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Come now, Lady Wycombe, if you'll take the Duke of Zenith's arm, we will proambulate in to the magnolious feed! ''
Babbitt 1922
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"There's a magnolious medico ahead here on the pass," Pinky Parrott interrupted.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Come now, Lady Wycombe, if you’ll take the Duke of Zenith’s arm, we will proambulate in to the magnolious feed!”
Babbit 2004
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Come now, Lady Wycombe, if you'll take the Duke of Zenith's arm, we will proambulate in to the magnolious feed! "
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
biocon commented on the word magnolious
Magnolious means "magnificent, splendid, large." Slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.). Now rare http://www.oed.com.proxygsu-way1.galileo.usg.edu/view/Entry/112357?rskey=InAMuA&result=15&isAdvanced=false#eid'>http://www.oed.com.proxygsu-way1.galileo.usg.edu/view/Entry/112357?rskey=InAMuA&result=15&isAdvanced=false#eid (Oxford English Dictionary).
June 26, 2011